Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wealthy and influential men from all over Canada and the U.S. gathered last week in the fishing village of Seven Islands, on the bleak north shore of the St. Lawrence River. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis, and Newfoundland Premier Joseph Smallwood flew into town...
The pushbutton ceremony climaxed one of the great hands-across-the-border industrial ventures of modern times. As long as half a century ago, geologists were sure that iron ore lay buried beneath the lichens of barren Ungava, but there seemed no practical and profitable way of moving it from...
Also a Cure for Recession. As administrator of the 160-bed Miners' Hospital in Spangler, Pa. (pop. 3,200), Booster Haluska castigated the hospital staff ("slaughterers") for not adopting the tonic. Then he staged a "Hoxsey Day," with a parade, baton-twirling high-school girls, and a speech by...
As a boy back in Lolo (pop. 200), Mont., where he was born on Sept. 1, 1900, Bill Allen gave little indication of such single-minded devotion to the job ahead. He is remembered as a tall, stringy "toothpick" youngster. His father, Charles Maurice Allen, was a mining engineer who...
Loping Along. The western has changed considerably in Raine's span. Raine has changed too but not radically. He has been content to lope along an endless Chisholm trail of escape that carries millions of readers to happy endings. He has always been modest about his success, has never...